Updated August 12, 2026. Quick answer. To dissolve an LLC in Wyoming you file the Limited Liability Company Articles of Dissolution, and it can be filed on paper only. Fee: $60. Wyoming requires no tax-clearance certificate to accept the filing. Until that filing is accepted the LLC still legally exists — and whatever Wyoming charges an LLC each year keeps accruing against it.
What you file in Wyoming, and what it costs
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Filing | Limited Liability Company Articles of Dissolution (no form number; current revision June 2021), filed with the Wyoming Secretary of State, Cheyenne — single filing |
| Fee | $60 |
| How you can file | mail — The form states: ‘Please mail with payment to the address at the top of this form. This form cannot be accepted via email.’ In-person delivery to the Cheyenne office is also accepted, but unlike Wyoming formations and reinstatements there is no online dissolution filing as of retrieval. |
| Tax clearance | not required |
| Statute | Wyo. Stat. §17-29-701 (events causing dissolution; cited on the SOS form), §17-29-702 (winding up), §17-29-705 (administrative dissolution) |
Verified from the official form PDF at sos.wyo.gov (LLC-ArticlesDissolution, Revised June 2021). One-step filing: the signer certifies ‘I am in compliance with W.S. 17-29-701, and I have met all requirements for dissolution and winding up as required in the Limited Liability Company Act.’ Checklist requires the entity to be ‘active and in good standing with this office’ — meaning current on annual reports/license tax with the SOS. Processing up to 15 business days.
On the fee. Form checklist: ‘Filing Fee: $60.00. Make check or money order payable to Wyoming Secretary of State.’ Consistent with the SOS Business Division fee schedule (sos.wyo.gov/Business/docs/BusinessFees.pdf).
Tax clearance in Wyoming
No tax-clearance certificate is required to file in Wyoming. That is not the same as owing nothing — it means the state will accept the filing without a revenue-agency sign-off first.
No tax-clearance certificate is required; Wyoming has no entity income tax. The only ‘clearance-like’ condition is the form’s own checklist requirement that the entity be active and in good standing with the Secretary of State (i.e., annual report license tax current). Negative verified from the SOS’s own form, which lists no tax-agency attachment.
Do not just walk away
Closing the business is not closing the entity. If the annual report and license tax (greater of $60 or $0.0002 per dollar of in-state assets, due the first day of the anniversary month) are not filed within 60 days after the due date, the Secretary of State administratively dissolves the LLC (W.S. 17-29-705); reinstatement is available for 2 years ($100 reinstatement context fee per SOS)
Per the SOS’s own FAQ (sos.wyo.gov/faqs.aspx?root=BUS): the entity ‘becomes delinquent on the second day of the month following its due date, and if not filed within 60 days after the due date, the entity will be administratively dissolved’; entities dissolved for failure to file annual reports ‘within the past two years’ with no other delinquencies may reinstate online or by mail. Statutory basis W.S. 17-29-705 (administrative dissolution) in the Wyoming LLC Act, whose full text the SOS itself hosts. No member personal-liability consequence stated in state sources; many owners deliberately let WY LLCs lapse, but back license tax is owed on reinstatement.
Closing the tax accounts
No state income-tax wind-down (Wyoming has no corporate or personal income tax). If the LLC holds a Wyoming sales/use tax license, file final returns and close the license with the WY Department of Revenue; final annual-report license tax to the SOS is only owed if the report comes due before dissolution
Wyoming imposes no entity income tax, so there is no final franchise/income return. Sales/use-tax license closure with the WY Department of Revenue is the standard wind-down step for licensed vendors; I did not locate a dedicated DOR ‘closing a business’ page to cite, so treat the DOR-closure detail as general practice rather than a cited state instruction.
Before you file
- The order the steps go in — internal decision, creditors and distributions, the state filing, the final returns, then the registrations you are still paying for.
- What an LLC costs to keep alive in Wyoming — the bill that keeps running until this filing lands.
- What dissolution costs in all 51 jurisdictions — the fee, the filing route and the tax-clearance flag, side by side.
- What happens if you simply stop filing — administrative dissolution is the walk-away trap happening to you rather than by you.
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Sources and limits
Wyo. Stat. §17-29-701 (events causing dissolution; cited on the SOS form), §17-29-702 (winding up), §17-29-705 (administrative dissolution). Fee, form and procedure read 2026-08-10 from the official source.
Research note. Primary source is the SOS’s own Articles of Dissolution form (full PDF read); fee schedule and FAQ on sos.wyo.gov corroborate. Access failures logged: law.justia.com 17-29-705 page returned HTTP 403; sos.wyo.gov/Business/Reinstatements.aspx returned 404; codes.findlaw and law.onecle section pages unavailable — administrative-dissolution timeline therefore rests on the SOS FAQ (official) rather than codified text.
Honest gap. This page covers the state filing that ends the entity, its fee and its tax-clearance condition. It does not cover creditor claims against a dissolved LLC, disputes between members, the tax treatment of a final distribution, reinstatement after an administrative dissolution, or withdrawal from any other state you registered in — each of those has its own rules. General information, not legal or tax advice. See methodology and corrections.